adventure games as a means to regress

lucidrains · 01-25-2005, 02:27 PM

i have the feeling that a large percentage of people who play adventure games are seeking something in the past that they have left unfulfilled. The game becomes a physical representation of this unfulfillment.

Wormsie · 01-25-2005, 02:33 PM

How?

LauraMac · 01-25-2005, 02:48 PM

That's an interesting thought, how so?

squarejawhero · 01-25-2005, 02:48 PM

I lost all my Star Wars plastic guns as a kid. This man is a genius!

Fairygdmther · 01-25-2005, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by lucidrains

i have the feeling that a large percentage of people who play adventure games are seeking something in the past that they have left unfulfilled. The game becomes a physical representation of this unfulfillment.

Interesting philosophy! I had this sense about Syberia 1 & 2, as if Kate were vicariously living Hans' lifelong dream. It certainly wasn't her dream to pursue mammoths, but the concept of pursuing a dream, even someone else's dream, is very enticing, and unfortunately not something many get to do in real life.

All of us experience moments in our lives when we know that we are letting opportunities pass us by, but we are unwilling or unable to follow them at the time. I believe, if I understand you, that you are saying that adv games give us that second chance to experience those missed opportunities.

FGM

SirDave · 01-25-2005, 05:14 PM

My family left me on an island with a bunch of burned books.

lucidrains · 01-25-2005, 06:05 PM

actually, i thought about it some more.

it's actually quite ridiculous in retrospect. i feel like carl jung.
the reasoning is suspiciously satisfying though...

lucidrains · 01-25-2005, 06:05 PM

...sounds almost spiritual, pseudo-spiritual, that is.

Intrepid Homoludens · 01-25-2005, 08:25 PM

I play the games to ENRICH my reality, not to escape it.

Cristallix · 01-26-2005, 12:46 AM

What would Freud have to say about this?

Intrepid Homoludens · 01-26-2005, 12:48 AM

"Sometimes an adventure game is just a cigar."

Wormsie · 01-26-2005, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

"Sometimes an adventure game is just a cigar."

Banana.

Jazhara7 · 01-26-2005, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Intrepid Homoludens

"Sometimes an adventure game is just a cigar."

I think he would say:

" The fact that you are at all concerned about adventure games reveals your underlying sexual insecurity."

Which might explain some discussions on these boards.

...Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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Wormsie · 01-26-2005, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Jazhara7

" The fact that you are at all concerned about adventure games reveals your underlying sexual insecurity."

Which might explain some discussions on these boards.

No, because we are aware of our undelying sexual insecurity, we have those talks. We KNOW about it. So that explains why I no longer play adventure games. It's not that the genre is modly and boring, it's because...

OK, no sex talk in Adventure...

ConcreteRancor · 01-26-2005, 11:45 AM

I play adventure games because I have a secret desire to murder my father and marry my mother.

Jazhara7 · 01-26-2005, 01:01 PM

Oedipus Complex.

I'll say no more.

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squarejawhero · 01-26-2005, 02:01 PM

Zis may look like a seegar, but mein freund, ze Clinton sayz udderwize.

Jazhara7 · 01-26-2005, 02:28 PM

It's a giant, flying Banana.

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BoyToy · 01-26-2005, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by squarejawhero

Zis may look like a seegar, but mein freund, ze Clinton sayz udderwize.

*LOL* Best Dr. Zempf impression since... well, since 1962 actually!

pinkgothic · 01-26-2005, 05:59 PM

*laughs!*

*laughs so hard that she can't even punish BoyToy for linking her to yet another thread when she's supposed to be studying*

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Intrepid Homoludens merely human Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 22,309	"Sometimes an adventure game is just a cigar." Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ platform: laptop, iPhone 3Gs \| gaming: x360, PS3, psp, iPhone, wii \| blog: a space alien \| book: the moral landscape: how science can determine human values by sam harris \| games: l.a.noire, portal 2, brink, dragon age 2, heavy rain \| sites: NPR, skeptoid, gaygamer \| music: ray lamontagne, adele, washed out, james blake \| twitter: a_space_alien

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